The NLB's 'mini Mollies' serve preschools and childcare centres in HDB neighbourhoods, as well as welfare organisations that were previously inaccessible by NLB's larger mobile library buses.

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CHEN Onn Peng remembers what it was like to travel a whole hour just to get to a library. In the '60s, she and her twin sister would get on bus 107 from Johor Bahru and ride it all the way to a red brick building on Stamford Road. There, at what was Singapore's National Library building at the